Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Exploring the biophysical option space for feeding the world without deforestation

  • Karl-Heinz Erb,
  • Christian Lauk,
  • Thomas Kastner,
  • Andreas Mayer,
  • Michaela C. Theurl,
  • Helmut Haberl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11382
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Safeguarding existing forests is an important ecological concern but constrains the expansion of farmland to feed the growing world population. Here the authors analyse the option space for future changes in agriculture and diets compatible with a no-deforestation goal.